Funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art

In January 2014, with funding from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Archives of American Art launched a two-year initiative to improve access to primary sources documenting American art and design in Chicago collections. This project aligns with the Terra Foundation’s goals to foster innovative approaches to American art scholarship and with the Archives’ mission to collect, preserve and make available primary source material documenting the visual arts in the United States.
An integral component of the project was the production of interviews of Chicago artists and art dealers for the Archives’ oral history program. The interviews gather a wealth of information on Chicago’s art history, adding to the Archives’ existing in-depth interviews in and about Chicago including with Katharine Kuh, Fitzhugh Dinkins, William McBride, Don Baum, Ruth Duckworth, Richard A. Florsheim, Susanne Ghez, Richard Howard Hunt, Richard Gray, Gladys Nilsson, Miyoko Ito, Anne Rorimer, Archibald Motley, and many others.
For more Chicago primary sources, visit Chicago’s Art-Related Archival Materials, a Terra Foundation Resource.
Interviews
- Adrian, Dennis, 1937-
Oral history interview with Dennis Adrian, 2015 October 8-9 - Conger, William, 1937-
Oral history interview with William Conger, 2015 May 18-20 - Green, Art, 1941-
Oral history interview with Art Green, 2015 September 17-18 - Halkin, Theodore, 1924-
Oral history interview with Ted Halkin, 2015 July 29- August 17 - Hoffman, Rhona, 1934-
Oral history interview with Rhona Hoffman, 2015 June 18-22 - Josephson, Kenneth, 1932-
Oral history interview with Kenneth Josephson, 2015 September 29-30 - Klement, Vera, 1929-
Oral history interview with Vera Klement, 2015 June 12 and 14 - Rocca, Suellen, 1943-2020
Oral history interview with Suellen Rocca, 2015 November 5-6 - Schulze, Franz, 1927-2019
Oral history interview with Franz Schulze, 2015 October 19-21 - Statsinger, Evelyn, 1927-2016
Oral history interview with Evelyn Statsinger, 2015 May 11-13
Total Records: 10